Arit Emmanuela Etukudo

Arit Emmanuela Etukudo is a Nigerian-American self-portrait Moving Image Installation and Performance Artist whose practice deals with the fluidity and metamorphosis of Black identity. She combines moving image, VFX, soundscapes, poetry, and sculpture to create work that transports viewers to immersive realms where they connect with the worlds created by her subconscious identities. She binds her audience through the communion of her body and the metaphysical. She uses the Black Radical Imagination as a tool to emancipate Black existence; by focusing on transformative dreaming. She is defining the term “AfroFrequency” as the root of this Black Magical Experience. That is the ontology, mysticism, history, and transcendental realities that live at the root of African existence.

She has exhibited in spaces such as New Art Exchange, UK; Art Share LA, USA; and Théâtre Paul Scarron, France. She was shortlisted for the 2020 Walter and Sondheim Art Prize, and the 2019 Left Bank Leeds Art Prize. She received the NAE Future Exhibition Prize in 2019. She currently holds a role as an Adjunct Professor at Stevenson University in Owings Mills, MD.